Mayor Mamdani signaled today that his administration is taking a serious look at advocates’ renewed push to extend G train service to Forest Hills on weekends for the first time in 15 years — even though the MTA has the final call on whether that will happen. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

After 15 years running on a shortened weekend route, the G train should once again extend to Forest Hills on Saturdays and Sundays, a group of advocates and the New York Mets told the MTA and elected officials this week. www.amny.com/news/g-train...

GDC sent a corrected release saying work will stop if the funds aren't resotred by 5pm. Likely they are awaiting the outcome of an emergency hearing that a Manhattan federal judge scheduled for the NY/NJ AGs' lawsuit today at 1pm.

As expected the Gateway Development Commission announces that work has stopped on the Hudson Tunnel Project since the Trump admin is still refusing to release federal funds it froze for the project in October.

Uber and Lyft drivers are set to receive “just cause” protections from “unfair deactivations,” after the City Council voted yesterday to override ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ 11th-hour veto of legislation to establish those safeguards. www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...

Andy Byford, once NYC Transit’s “train daddy” and now the Amtrak official charged with overseeing the Penn Station redesign, said today that he needs to “fully come up to speed” on dire warnings about the Gateway Tunnel project's impending pause. www.amny.com/news/penn-st...

A federal judge today sharply questioned Trump admin lawyers on their case for killing congestion pricing — specifically the idea that the president, via his transpo sec, has the power to void a contract approved by the previous admin. W/ @ninapullano.bsky.social www.amny.com/law/congesti...

Sen. Schumer at a meeting of the Gateway Development Corporation, the entity overseeing the construction of the Gateway Tunnel project, testifies that the poject is "on the precipice of being derailed and maybe even killed" after President Trump froze funding for it in Oct.

As new City Council Speaker Julie Menin names her leadership team and committee chair assignments on Thursday, two sources confirmed to amNewYork that she is set to appoint Council Member Shaun Abreu as the legislature’s new chair of the Committee on Transportatio. www.amny.com/news/speaker...

Monday marks one year since the congestion pricing cameras turned on and began charging drivers a $9 base toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street during peak hours. www.amny.com/news/congest...

Congestion pricing is working. The cameras are staying on.

If you are a huge nerd like me, you may be wondering, "what about No. 6 trains that use the old City Hall Station to turn around at the end of their runs? What will they do during the Mamdani swearing-in?" Fear not.

The MetroCard, an iconic piece of plastic utilized by countless New Yorkers to access the city’s mass transit system for just over three decades, meets its demise on Dec. 31 at the age of 32. www.amny.com/news/remembe...

"ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to veto a controversial bill that would have required two operators aboard every subway train with more than two cars, sources told Streetsblog." W/Streetsblog's Man in Albany, Austin Jefferson -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/19/h...

MTA Chair Janno Lieber says the agency is still examining whether its new “European style” of fare enforcement on buses would require the buses to stop (as currently happens) or they will be able to do it while the bus is moving.

Outgoing City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams will not bring a measure to implement universal “daylighting,” which would eliminate parking near intersections to make them safer, to a vote before the end of the body’s current session. www.amny.com/news/speaker...

Safe streets advocates renewed their call on Monday for installing a two-way protected bike lane along Brooklyn’s Lafayette Avenue following an early morning crash that, police say, left an e-bike rider in critical condition. www.amny.com/news/advocat...

Queens F and M train riders gave mixed reactions to the two lines swapping their paths between the World’s Borough and Manhattan on Monday, the first day of the service change. www.amny.com/news/subway-...

CM Shekar Krishnan said yesterday he expects his long-stalled bill, aimed at strengthening protections for Uber/Lyft drivers from being kicked off the platforms through “unfair deactivations,” to receive a vote before the current City Council’s session ends in 2 weeks. www.amny.com/news/job-sec...

Personal news: I’m taking on a new beat as amNY”s transit reporter. Will be covering all things MTA and DOT. Hit me up with your tips/ideas on the subways, buses, street scape, ferries and all other modes of getting around!

Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social addressed a crowd of 3,000 supporters at a campaign rally in Washington Heights on Monday night, encouraging New Yorkers to leave the status quo behind. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

A group of some of New York’s most influential female elected officials joined Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Friday to slam President Trump’s Justice Department for indicting state Attorney General Letitia James. www.amny.com/news/ag-jame...

Curtis Sliwa says he won’t abandon mayoral run amid mounting pressure, experts told amNY that’s probably true www.amny.com/news/sliwa-n...

BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams quits re-election campaign after sagging in polls www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

Updated the story to reflect the announcement that ABC reinstated Kimmel and he will return on Tuesday night. Waiting to hear from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign on this.

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, one of the three key Albany leaders, said he is “wholy supportive” of Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda today, adding he’s “not concerned” that moderate Gov. Kathy Hochul will prevent it from being passed. www.amny.com/news/speaker...

Mayor Eric Adams‘ campaign continued to insist today that Hizzoner would stay in the mayoral general election, even while saying that it would conduct its own “independent poll” to make a decision on whether or not he will drop out. www.amny.com/news/adams-c...

Why is Eric Adams staying in the mayor’s race despite low polls? Experts offer a few possible reasons www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

During a @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social public safety forum @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social repeats an attack on rival Andrew Cuomo from the Dem primary, that the former gov's cutting of the state Advantage housing voucher program in 2011 "led to a skyrocketing of homelessness here in New York City."

After days of denial, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to admit Friday that he is entertaining offers for other job opportunities, though he maintained that he continues to campaign robustly for re-election. www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

As questions swirl around whether Mayor Adams will stay in the mayors race, amid reports he was offered a Trump admin job, Muslim leaders are endorsing his reelection bid at city hall.

Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday falsely labeled socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani “a communist,” echoing one of Republican President Donald Trump’s frequent lines of attack against the City Hall frontrunner. www.amny.com/news/eric-ad...

Mayor Adams says Dem nominee @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is "not a Democrat, he's a communist," when asked why Dem House Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Yvette Clarke have not endorsed. "It would be challenging to endorse his policies that are really anti-what working-class people want," he says.

Mayor Eric Adams today declined to say whether his ex-chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, is still volunteering on his long-shot reelection campaign just days after she was indicted on a slew of fresh bribery and conspiracy charges. www.amny.com/news/ex-adam...

On the heels of the latest corruption allegations against his former top aides, Mayor Eric Adams today said “hell no” to the notion of him “stepping down,” while declining to explicitly condemn their actions. www.amny.com/news/mayor-a...

Mayor Adams says “hell no” to the idea that he would step down as mayor now. “I’m never going to quit on the city of NY, we’ve worked too hard to get here,” he says.

Mayor Adams’ general election rivals pounced on the latest corruption charges against his former top adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, yesterday, as well as a report that another ex-top aide, Winnie Greco, handed a reporter a cash-stuffed potato chip bag the day before. www.amny.com/news/adams-r...

In Richmond Hill where @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is receiving an endorsement from Queens Boro Prez Donovan Richards

Independent mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo today again refused to release a list of clients he amassed as a private legal consultant in response to Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s video challenge to do so earlier this week. www.amny.com/news/cuomo-p...

At a news conference on "JOBS," mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo cautions against "anti-business rhetoric" — an obvious dig at dem socialist Zohran Mamdani. "They don't have to be here, and you know that's the case because they have been picking up and leaving," he says of businesses.

Last month, Gov. David Paterson urged all the mayoral candidates besides Dem nominee Zohran Mamdani to coalesce behind one contender. But today, Paterson said that idea is now “moot” and endorsed Eric Adams, the second-lowest-polling candidate. www.amny.com/politics/dav...

Went to Wegmans and got a few things, spent $27.25. Replicated the order on Instacart and the total was $47.84. Instacart is arguing that it's a lifeline for low income families, and that a worker minimum wage would force them to raise prices for consumers... how does this make sense? It doesn't!

Former Gov. and independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo is presenting his own affordability plan to counter Dem nominee @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He says he would offer a 100% subsidy for low-income subway and bus riders. He says Mamdani's free bus plan "subsidizes the rich."

On Brian Lehrer, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social says he no longer believes what he said 5 years ago that the NYPD is "racist, anti queer and a major threat to public safety." Mamdani says his stance changed thru convos with officers during his time as an elected since 2021.

Mayor Eric Adams brushed off today a report that his mayoral reelection campaign submitted dozens of forged or fraudulent signatures to secure his place as an independent candidate on the November general election ballot. www.amny.com/politics/eri...

At the funeral for Officer Didarul Islam, who was killed in the Monday mass shooting, Mayor Adams "specifically" thanks the NYPD unit that responded to the incident, the Strategic Response Group. The same unit has often been criticized for using excessive force on protesters.

Dem mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani returned to the U.S. on Wednesday from a week-and-a-half-long trip to his home country of Uganda and was allowed through Customs without any incident. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Does the Trump DOJ's recent decision to sue Mayor Adams over NYC sanctuary laws and Hizzoner's move calling on the feds to probe conditions inside an ICE lockup at 26 Federal Plaza signal that their relationship may be souring? If so, does that benefit Adams? www.amny.com/news/adams-t...

Last night's mass shooting that left 5 people dead, including an NYPD officer and the suspected gunman, drew immediate condolences from the leading general election mayoral candidates and has the potential to shake up a race that has already been a rollercoaster ride. www.amny.com/politics/may...